Soyuz TM-9
Launch Date
February 11, 1990
Craft
Soyuz
Status
Past
Crew
2
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Soyuz TM-9
Launch Date
February 11, 1990
Craft
Soyuz
Status
Past
Crew
2
Overview
This mission took the EO-6 long duration crew to and from the Mir space station. The crew performed a spacewalk to repair the Soyuz spacecraft's thermal insulation blankets.
Crafts
Soyuz
Soyuz is a human-carrying capsule built and operated by Russia, capable of transporting up to three people to the Space Station at a time. It has been upgraded numerous times since its first use in the 1960s for the Soviet lunar program and was the only crewed vehicle for the Station from 2011 to 2020.
